A statement from the White House that is this clearly and obviously false is likely deliberate:
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1524868269148192779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The U.S. vaccination effort hadn’t been going for very long, but 884,908 Americans had received at least one shot of a Covid vaccine by January 19, 2021, the day before Biden took office… (UPDATE) Wait, that’s just the figure for New York state. On January 19, more than 17.8 million Americans had gotten the first shot.